Improvement in side-bar wagons



a. F.'BARNECOTT.

SIDE-BAR WAGON.

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IMPROVEMENT IN SIDE-BAR WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 169,885, dated November 16, 1875; application filed J nne 28, 1875.

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN F. BARNECOTT, of New York city, N. Y., have invented an Improved Side-Bar Wagon, of which the following is a specification Figure 1 represents a plan view of the side bars and springs of my" improved side-bar wagon. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts in both figures.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of side-bar wagonsin which the side bar is made rigid in the middle, and of metallic springs at the ends; and the invention consists in the peculiar manner of fastening the metallic end springs to the rigid middle bar and to the transverse springs, as hereinafter more fullydescribed.

In the drawing, the letters 0 and D represent two semielliptical or other springs, which rest respectively on the front and rear axles of a Wagon. 11E are the side bars, resting with their ends on. the springs O and D. These side bars E E are of stiff wood or other stiff material a at their middle portion, while the ends are made of metallic leaf-springs b b. The

lower leaf of each spring 6 has its inner end bent into a hook, i, to fit over the bottom bar of a clip, f, that embraces the rigid bar a at or near its end, and also the spring b. By this hook i and clip f the metallic spring I; is fastened to the rigid bar a. At the outer end the lower leaf of each metallic spring I) is provided with a narrow neck, 6, and is connected to the transverse spring 0 or D by means of a staple, g g, that straddles the neck e, and that is fastened to the said transverse spring. I11 this Way a flexible joint is produced, and yet lateral up and down, or forward and backward, play of 

